Free software never promised free labour
Paying for OSS is not a betrayal of its ideals. The harder problem is funding future maintenance without rewriting the promise attached to what was already given away.
Practical .NET and cloud architecture
I write about ASP.NET Core, AWS, APIs, testing, infrastructure, and developer tooling, grounded in problems I encounter while building real systems.
Recent posts
How to publish a NuGet package with GitHub Actions in 2026
Build, test, version, package, and securely publish a .NET library to NuGet.org using GitHub Actions, MinVer, workflow artifacts, and trusted publishing.
Adding strongly typed defaults to .NET configuration
Add strongly typed defaults to the .NET configuration pipeline while keeping the normal precedence and override behavior of other configuration providers.
Combining source-generated Minimal API registration with constructor injection
Source generation can register injectable Minimal API endpoint classes and map their routes without runtime scanning or manual composition.
Native AOT for .NET AWS Lambda functions
Switching to Native AOT shouldn’t change how you write your business logic. It should change how the Lambda is hosted, built and serialized around it.
OpenTelemetry for .NET AWS Lambda functions
Lambda functions created with Kralizek.Lambda.Templates can expose invocation, record and source-specific telemetry before application code adds a single span. Here is how that telemetry fits into OpenTelemetry locally with Aspire and wh...
Making ASP.NET Core Minimal API handlers easier to test
Constructor injection keeps Minimal API handler tests focused as endpoint dependencies grow.
Why Residuality Theory resonates with me
Residuality Theory gave names and structure to architectural habits I had developed over years: walking a problem repeatedly, challenging assumptions, and designing with uncertainty in mind.
Designing for union types before C# supports them
How to design your code for union types before C# actually supports them.
A programming model for .NET AWS Lambda functions
AWS provides the Lambda runtime primitives. AWSLambdaSharpTemplate V6 adds an opinionated .NET programming model for handlers, scopes, contexts and event-source semantics.